Automobile heater



l. BASSETT, G. E. D. SEALE, AND G. DAVIDSON. AUTOMOBILE HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I9 1918.

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AUTOTJIOBILE HEATER.

Application filed October 19, 1918.

To ll whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN Bassnrr, GEORGE. EDWARD DOUGALD Senna, and GEORGE Dnvmson, all citizens of the Dominion of New Zealand, and residing at Hall Street, Hokitika, Sale Street, Hokitika, and Bealey Street, l-lokitika, respectively, in the Provincial District of Westland, in the Dominion of New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention provides means for utilizing waste heat of internal combustion engines for heating the hands, feet and body of the driver and passengers of a motor car or the like, or of the pilot of an aeroplane or the like.

The invention comprises a housing disposed around the exhaust pipe or other heated part of an. internal combustion engine, and pipes leading from the housing to any desired part such as the steering wheel, the foot boards and seats of a vehicle or aeroplane or the like, air being admitted to the sleeve, and after being heated by the exhaust pipe or other part of the engine the air passes through the pipes and is distributed near or upon the steering wheel, toot board, seats or other part of the vehicle or machine.

The invention may be conveniently and advantageously carried intopractice as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows diagrammatically the invention applied to conveying heat to a steering wheel and the rear seat of a motor car.

Figure l, is a diagrammatic sectional elevation, and

Figure 2, a plan of the invention adapted for conveying heated air to the steering Wheel, and rear seat of a motor car.

As adapted for conveying heat from the exhaust pipe, 1, the housing comprises a sleeve 2 having a bell mouth 3 for the admission of air. The sleeve is fixed to the hottest accessible part of the exhaust pipe by screws 4, and near its closed end 5 and on its upper side is provided with a pipe 6,

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wh ch may baled to any desired part. and as illustrateo m the drawing has branches and 8, which direct heated air to the steering wheel 9. W hen the driver or pilot is grasping the steering wheel 9 his hands are subjected to the stream of heated air which rises from the housing 2 and through the pine 6 and are thus kept comfortably warm. 7 i L Another pipe 10 leads from the sleeve 2 L0 the rear seat 11 and discharges heated air near the test of passengers on the seat. When the knees of the passengers are covered oy a rug the heated air is retained, and keeps the passengers comfortably warm.

in hot weather, when the heated air is not required a cock 1.2 in the pipe 6 is closed. or the amount of air is regulated bv the said cock, so that any desired temperature mav be obtained. The conveying of heated to the interior of a motor car as above described has the effect of preventing 09 from dimming the glass of the wind sci'een when driving through a fog.

It is'to be noted that the inner closed end 5 supports the inner end or" the sleeve while the screws 41: positioned near the mouth sunport the forward end of the sleeve and in addition bitingly engage the manifold and in this manner tend to prevent accidental movement of the sleeve. Moreover the connection oi": the pipes 6 and 10 with the sleeve also tends to prevent accidental movement of the sleeve.

What we desire to obtain and secure lov Letters Patent of the United States is H In a motor vehicle heater the combination with the exhaust pipe of the engine, of sleeve of a greater diameter than the di ameter of the exhaust pipe and having the inner end closed and the opposite end op n and flared outwardly to form a mouth, the inner end 01"- the sleeve having a central aperture designed for adjustable and snug engagement with the exhaust pipe and in addition supporting the inner end of the sleeve in spaced relation with the exhaust pipe, outlet pipe connections near the inner end of the sleeveand adapted to receive heat connames to this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN BASSETT. GEORGE EDWARD DOUGALD SEALE.

GEORGE DAVIDSON. lVitnesses JOHN SAUNDERS, K. A. GITOHINGHAM. 

